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Essay on Love and Friendship: What is True Love?
Love, friendship, sympathy and likeness – these feelings are the brightest
moments of our life. They become the source of joy and positive energy but can become
the reason of big problems and disillusionment at the same time. It’s important to know
the notions of these feelings and their characteristics to avoid possible mistakes. Very
often lack of knowledge in this field can lead to misunderstandings and finally to poor
or even tragic consequences.
Sometimes people mix love and friendship or love and passion or sexual
attraction. All these feelings are important and reflect different aspect of our life but not
all of them are enough to create a family. For non-professional it’s hard to give
appraisal of such notions as love and friendship. Professionals also don’t share common
opinion on this subject. Bruce King in his book Human Sexuality Today compares love
and friendship finding differences and similarities. Both feelings – love and friendship
closely correlate and interact, as they possess a lot of common characteristics.
First of all love and friendship is relationship, which requires time, effort and
many other characteristics, which form mutual relationship. Both, love and friendship
assume emotional involvement, care, respect and devotion. Both feelings undergo
transformations with the flow of time and go through different stages. You can have
several friends but situations of being in loving relationships with several people are
very rare and are regarded rather like deviation, than something normal. This is one of
the differences between love and friendship. Another incontestable difference between
love and friendship is sexual attraction. Friendship usually doesn’t assume any sexual
attraction at all and most forms of love (in the context of relationship between people
who are in love) include sexual attraction. Love can be reciprocal or not, and in this
field it’s expressed more like an attitude. It’s hard to imagine reciprocal friendship. It
either exists or not. Friendship is rather a relationship, which emerges on the joint of
several spheres i.e. emotional, mental, physical, etc.
Like we could make sure, it’s hard to explain the notion of love or friendship. It
becomes even harder, when we start talking about the true love. There is no one distinct